Brijesh Patel electedBANGALORE: Former Test cricketer, Brijesh Patel, has been elected secretary of Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA). Patel defeated the incumbent C Nagaraj in the election held here on Saturday under tight police security. The polls were scheduled for August 29, but had to be postponed following noisy scenes.Former Test cricketers G R Vishwanath, Roger Binny and Syed Kirmani, were among those elected to the managing committee.Titles sharedNEW DELHI: Rain forced the organisers to declare as joint winners all the boys under-14 and u-16 singles and doubles and girls u-14 and u-16 singles finalists at the DSCL National Tennis Championships here on Sunday.The winners - Boys u-16: Sunil Kumar (Chd) and Anant Sitaram (AP); U-14: Dhrub Kumar (WB) and Nishank Mishra (Del)Doubles: Nikhil Vijay Murali/S Abhinav and Amanjot Singh/Nishank Mishra; Girls u-16: Sonal Phadke, Lisa Pereira (both Mah)U-14: Samrita Sekhar (TN) and Sasha Abraham (AP); Doubles: SaniaMirza-Sasha Abraham (AP) and Priyanka Parekh-Ragini Virmal (West Bengal) yesterday as the tie was affected by rain.5 Indians qualifyHYDERABAD: Former junior national champion Saurav Panja along with Ghouse Mustafa, Vishal Gupta, P Sreenavasan Saif Ali, Sanzaruz Zaman and Germans Gerhard Fahlke qualified for the main draw of the GVK ITF Indian Satellite Second Leg Tennis tournament on Sunday.On Saturday's play, five Indians and one England player, qualified for the main draw, to be held on Monday.IFA ShieldCALCUTTA: Altogether eight top teams, including club teams from Singapore, Thailand and Bangladesh, would take part in the IFA Shield football tournament to be held in Siliguri and Calcutta from Nov 10. The final is scheduled for Nov 20 at the Salt Lake City Sadium.
